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100 playing cards for ensemble

Tom Soloveitzik: soprano saxophone
Toshimaru Nakamura: no-input mixing board
Atsuko Hatano: five-string viola
Naoto Yamagishi: percussion

Composition by Hannes Lingens

Produced by Tom Soloveitzik
Recorded live at Ftarri, Tokyo, November 5, 2023
Recorded by Ftarri
Mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura
Artwork by Ella Malkin
Design by Cathy Fishman

CD, Meenna 2025

„Perhaps nothing better represents Ftarri’s open field of possibilities than this performance of a
composition by Hannes Lingens, held at Ftarri, which runs to almost 80 minutes, and is by turns
quizzical, uproarious, graceful and bizarre. Lingens’s piece directs musicians to play using 100 cards
with brief instructions, and the unusual instrumentation of viola, soprano sax, no-input mixing board
and percussion creates a mix of intensity and incongruity that stays long in the memory.“

Derek Walmsley in The Wire, August 2025